The Department of Animal and Food Sciences offers six graduate degree programs: the master of science degree in animal science; the non-thesis master of science degree in animal science with a ...

The Master of Laboratory Animal Science (MLAS) degree program in the Stanford University Department of Comparative Medicine is a graduate program designed for students who want to pursue advanced ...

The MLAS degree is designed to significantly enhance students' credentials and competitiveness for career advancement within the field of laboratory animal science, as well as strengthen their ...

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived ...

Sound science requires animal subjects to be physically, physiologically, and behaviorally unharmed. Accordingly, publication of methods that contravenes animal welfare principles risks perpetuating ...

The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the fossil record, according to a new study led by the University of Oxford. The ...

With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside. With a ...

Microfossils from Mongolia suggest the first animals may be up to 200 million years older than their oldest clear fossils, a new study finds.

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question. The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of ...

We spend so much time making sure wildlife stays away from us, whether that’s setting traps, building fences or putting out poisons. Sure, unwanted guests are annoying. But why do we consider some ...

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Kaylei Wong graduated from UMass Amherst in 2025 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pre-Veterinary Science and a minor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She is currently in her second year at ...